Bill Fairclough
 Bill Fairclough            ( Businessman, accountant, spook) | |
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| Born | John William Percy Fairclough 31 August 1950 Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Parents | • Richard Alan Fairclough • Margaret Fairclough |
| Spouse | Josefina Repancol Fairclough |
| Interests | •  Infiltration•  Intelligence• Espionage |
Bill Fairclough's biography | |
Bill Fairclough was an intelligence agent operating covertly under the guise of being a successful businessman. In 2014 Bill Fairclough published "Beyond Enkription", the first of six autobiographical books in The Burlington Files series, which together with subsequent press releases and news articles, disclosed and substantiated that he had worked as an intelligence agent for MI6 and the CIA since the early 1970s. On 14 October 2025 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC, formerly Bill Fairclough's employer Coopers & Lybrand) affirmed in a deposition (a formal legal disclosure - GDPR SAR 25.84) that he was a "Career Spy". (See https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.10.24.php and https://archive.org/details/pricewaterhouse-coopers-gdpr-sar-25.84-response-bill-fairclough.)
He has survived over two dozen attempted murders as explained in https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2023_06.07.php. Overtly he was an English Chartered Accountant for over 40 years specialising in fraud prevention and detection; he became the finance director of several well-known businesses. However, secretly he also worked in intelligence specialising in investigations and infiltration for almost 50 years. Most of his recent work in intelligence is still shrouded in secrecy for obvious security and legal reasons. Nevertheless, selected information relating to Bill Fairclough's past assignments and investigations can be accessed via http://bit.ly/Bill_Fairclough or via this link.
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Faire Sans Dire
In 1978 he founded Faire Sans Dire [[1]] which, according to its website [[2]], was and may still be a niche UK based global intelligence and investigatory organisation. By and large its past and present activities remain secret for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, its past activities are divulged to a degree in its press releases [[3]] and to the extent disclosed may also be seen via http://bit.ly/Bill_Fairclough or via this link.
The Burlington Files
In 2014, Beyond Enkription [[4]] was published as the first novel in The Burlington Files [[5]] [[6]], a series of six biographical novels based on Bill Fairclough's life. The series was initially copyrighted by an English company, The Burlington Files Limited [[7]] [[8]]. Beyond Enkription was not written as, and has never been marketed as, a traditional novel because it was written for film adaptation. The purposes of publication were to secure copyright and make the book easily accessible.
Links
- http://bit.ly/Bill_Fairclough (Biography - see below)
- http://bit.ly/JWPF-Biography (Biography - see below)
- https://theburlingtonfiles.org
- https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Faire-Sans-Dire
Bill Fairclough's biographies (on both The Burlington Files website at http://bit.ly/Bill_Fairclough and on WikiTree at http://bit.ly/JWPF-Biography) are not dissimilar to his biography reproduced on his WikiSpooks User Page which is accessible via this link. There exist many articles relating to Bill Fairclough on "Wiki" websites including Wikipedia itself and those on Everipedia that use the Wikipedia model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis). The Burlington Files Trust does not support or keep all these articles up to date. Some of them have been permanently impaired for reasons outside the control of The Burlington Files Trust, such as frequent wholesale website changes, and may therefore be in disarray or inaccessible.
In particular, articles on Everipedia cited below may be out of date, impaired or inaccessible. Alternatives to most of these are available in the News Sections on TheBurlingtonFiles website at https://theburlingtonfiles.org/index3f7b.php and/or at https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Faire-Sans-Dire/news/index.php. Where considered helpful, all the relevant links have been given below.
Most of the articles in Everipedia were posted there pursuant to a quasi-legal skirmish between FaireSansDire and Wikipedia during which Wikipedia deliberately erased dozens of articles and/or references to Bill Fairclough, FaireSansDire and TheBurlingtonFiles. Full details of this "disagreement" have never been published in the public domain. It is understood that at the time FaireSansDire had been (without prejudice) investigating issues in Asia and the Far East allegedly relating to some of Wikipedia's articles, editors etc. Useful links are summarised below.
Google search for Bill Fairclough http://bit.ly/Bill-Fairclough
A summary of Bill Fairclough's known life threatening incidents https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2023_06.07.php
Bill Fairclough was one of Pemberton's People in MI6 https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php
A film pitch for making films based on Bill Fairclough's life, FaireSansDire's activities, Pemberton's People in MI6, The Burlington Files and Beyond Enkription https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.04.21.php and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt3XvncEpNA&list=TLGGrfcft0EAmf4yMzA1MjAyNQ&t=4s
Search Wikipedia for articles and/or references in articles to Bill Fairclough, Alan Brooke Pemberton, Pemberton’s People, FaireSansDire, TheBurlingtonFiles, Beyond Enkription etc
Former Serious Fraud Office Executive Tony Wilson joins FaireSansDire https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2016.05.24.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Faire-Sans-Dire/former-sfo-advisor-tony-wilson-joins-faire-sans-dire/index.php
Bill Fairclough’s first ever interview on Código Crystal, RTVE (Spain’s equivalent of the BBC) – links to the broadcast and transcript – https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.03.22.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Transcript-of-Bill-Faircloughs-Interview-by-Sasi-Alami.php
The Yarm Bookshop (espionage hub or safe house) https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.11.16.php
St Peter's School York, Bill Fairclough (JJ) and Guy Fawkes (JJ) https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.11.05.php
John Van de Weg's recollections (the truth about Bill Fairclough's visit to Bermuda by Bermudan law enforcement) https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.11.23.php
Similarities between Alexander Litvinenko's and Bill Fairclough's poisonings https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.11.23.php
Edward Burlington's aka Bill Fairclough's details https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2018.04.24.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/edward-burlington
Bill Fairclough's LinkedIn profile http://uk.linkedin.com/in/billfairclough
Faire Sans Dire's preserved website https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Faire-Sans-Dire
The Burlington Files active website https://theburlingtonfiles.org
FaireSansDire's details https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2018.04.13.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/faire-sans-dire
Bill Fairclough, The Burlington Files and Faire Sans Dire news articles https://theburlingtonfiles.org/index3f7b.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/Faire-Sans-Dire/news/index.php
The Burlington Files explained https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2018.04.14b.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/the-burlington-files
The real identities of characters in The Burlington Files with photographs https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.09.26.php
Beyond Enkription explained (with a synopsis) https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.01.18.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/beyond-enkription
Beyond Enkription book trailer links to web-pages https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.07.31.php and https://bit.ly/TBFL-Video
Colonel Alan Pemberton's background https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.01.07.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/alan-pemberton
Dr Richard Fairclough's background https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.01.13.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/richard-alan-fairclough
Barrie Parkes' background https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2019.03.19.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/barrie-parkes-bem
Robert Vesco and Bill Fairclough's investigations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco#%22Vesco_law%22
Osama bin Laden, MV Nisha and Bill Fairclough's investigations https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2018.10.25.php and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/mv-nisha
Bill Fairclough's biography https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bill_Fairclough
Bill Fairclough's biography https://wikispooks.com/wiki/User:DoubleAgent
Bill Fairclough' biography https://en.everybodywiki.com/Bill_Fairclough
Bill Fairclough's biography https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Fairclough-119&public=1
Bill Fairclough's biography https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough
Concise Biography
In 1969 Bill Fairclough started his career as a trainee accountant (articled clerk) at Cooper Brothers, later to become Coopers & Lybrand [[9]] and after that PricewaterhouseCoopers [[10]]. Somewhat altruistically, Bill lived a double life from the early seventies working as an accountant in Coopers by day and in intelligence by night. In 1978 he established Faire Sans Dire [[11]] while still employed by Coopers & Lybrand.
In the seventies and eighties, Faire Sans Dire provided a conduit whereby intelligence agencies involved mainly in law enforcement could more easily work together. In those days, many intelligence agencies did not communicate one with another courtesy of the Cold War. Nonetheless, most of them abhorred people trafficking and similar heinous crimes. The goal of Faire Sans Dire was to help prevent the exponential spread of international organised crime which was exploiting the Cold War communications gap.
After leaving Coopers & Lybrand in July 1983, Bill Fairclough continued to work in the international financial services industry until January 1999 while still retaining control of Faire Sans Dire. From 1983 to 1986 Fairclough worked at Citigroup [[12]] and from 1986 to 1999 at the Barclays Group [[13]] including a secondment to the Reuters Group [[14]].
In 1999 he left the Barclays Group after resigning his directorship with Barclays Holdings (now Barclays Directors) [[15]]. He then switched roles and focused on Faire Sans Dire, albeit still covertly until 2010. Even then, he continued to take on directorships openly and covertly (as a shadow director) in various companies not only in the financial services sector but also in property, healthcare and other industries. Bill Fairclough retired in about 2018/19.
Recently Deleted Wikipedia Article [21 October 2025]
Bill Fairclough
Bill Fairclough’s career in financial services coincided with covert intelligence work. He has disclosed in his autobiographical book Beyond Enkription (2014) and in broadcasts (2025) on the Spanish state television and radio station RTVE that he served as an agent for MI6, the CIA and other intelligence agencies.[1][2][3]
As explained in the RTVE broadcasts, embedding an intelligence agent in a multinational’s senior management enables the state to advance its national interests, for example by identifying and preventing infiltration of its management by rogue state-sponsored criminal organisations.
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Early life and education
Bill Fairclough (born 1950 in Stockton-on-Tees, England) attended Red House School, Norton Green, Stockton-on-Tees (1955–1963) before winning a scholarship to St Peter's School, York (1963–1968).[4]
From 1969 to 1973 he trained as a Chartered Accountant with Cooper Brothers (later Coopers & Lybrand) in their Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne and London offices.[5] He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 and remained such until his resignation in 2016.[6] He qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment in 1994 (resigned 2016)[7] and as a life member of The Association of Corporate Treasurers in 1995.[8]
According to Bill Fairclough, in the early 1970s he was recruited for MI6 by Colonel Alan Brooke Pemberton CVO MBE and thereafter undertook covert assignments while continuing his accountancy career.[1][2][3]
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Overt professional career
Overtly, Fairclough worked at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers – PwC) from 1969 to 1983.[5][6] He served as a Vice-President at Citicorp (Citigroup/Citi) from 1983 to 1986.[9] He later held directorships within the Barclays group from 1986 to 1999[10][11][12] and in Instinet in the Reuters group from 1992 to 1995.[13]
During his career, Fairclough was a director of companies undertaking regulated financial activities including banking, credit/finance, insurance, investment and stockbroking. Before being appointed a director of these companies he had to register as a Director with regulators such as the FSA (UK), MOF (Japan), SEC (Hong Kong and United States) and the Bank of England.[9][14]
Banking: Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd, Chexcel Ltd, Mercantile Credit Company Ltd, Surety Trust Ltd Credit/Finance: Agrequip Ltd, Barclays Financial Services Ltd, Barclays Mercantile HBS Ltd, Barclays Retail Services Ltd, European Collateral Finance plc, European Corporate Finance plc, Fiatagri Finance Ltd, Mercantile (Basingstoke) Ltd, Mercantile (Hampshire) Ltd, Mercantile Card Services Ltd, Mercantile Financial Services Ltd, Mercantile Wholesale Vauxhall Ltd, Motoring Card Ltd, PSA Credit Company Ltd, UK Cars Direct Ltd, Wadham Stringer Credit Co. Ltd Insurance: Mercantile Credit Life Assurance Co. Ltd Investment: Citibank Investments Ltd, The Money Portal plc Stockbroking: Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd, Instinet International Ltd, Instinet Investment Services Ltd, Instinet Japan Ltd, Instinet Nederland NV, Instinet Pacific Ltd, Instinet UK Ltd, Thamesway Inc
Fairclough has stated that none of the regulatory checks by compliance officers revealed his intelligence associations or activities.
According to Companies House records, after leaving Barclays in 1999, he was appointed chairman and/or director of several companies including WW Dental Excellence Ltd, the ECF Group plc, PonderSwamp Ltd, Faire Sans Dire Ltd and The Money Portal plc.[15]
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Covert career and intelligence associations
In addition to his corporate roles, Fairclough has publicly discussed his covert career in intelligence during two interviews broadcast on RTVE. According to these interviews, he had been recruited by MI6 and subsequently worked for MI5, the CIA and other intelligence agencies. He said MI6 assigned him the codename “JJ” and that he was referred to in British Intelligence circles as one of “Pemberton’s People” in MI6.[1][2][3]
Since 2019, the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has produced a fact-based series called Código Crystal, interviewing espionage experts and covering major intelligence topics. The two episodes featuring Fairclough were broadcast on 22 March and 26 April 2025, comprising 20 questions, several of which focused on his espionage activities.[1][2][3]
Questions focusing on Bill Fairclough
• Questions 2 & 19 – Beyond Enkription and The Burlington Files[16][17] • Question 3 – FaireSansDire, Colonel Alan Pemberton and Pemberton’s People in MI6 • Questions 4, 5, 7, 14, 15 & 16 – Fairclough’s modus operandi as a spy • Question 6 – Bill Fairclough’s Known Life-Threatening Incidents (by Charles Fairclough, 2023, The Burlington Files website) • Questions 8 & 9 – working with the Five Eyes including MI6 and the CIA • Question 20 – MI6 recruitment, remuneration and clandestine Caribbean operations in the 1970s (Bahamas and Haiti)
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FaireSansDire
In 1978 Fairclough founded FaireSansDire Ltd, based in London, a consultancy business focusing on security, risk and intelligence. Its website went public in 2010.[18]
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The Burlington Files and publications
Fairclough is the author of Beyond Enkription (2014), the first and so far only published volume in his planned six-book series The Burlington Files. He also wrote many articles published on The Burlington Files website, which includes FaireSansDire’s archived content. Beyond Enkription and subsequent editions (including audiobook releases) have been reviewed in trade and online publications.
The book forms part of his public profile as an author recounting aspects of his life and career.[16][17]
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The Money Portal plc litigation
In 2004 and 2005, while a director of The Money Portal plc, Fairclough was accused in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division (Case No. HQ05X00357) of breaching his duties during an investigation into a co-director. The co-director was subsequently banned from acting as a director for ten years. In July 2006, the case against Fairclough was dropped following an out-of-court settlement reported to have been in his favour and agreed with The Money Portal’s chairman, Richard Hambro of the Hambros Bank family.[19][20]
Evidence that Bill Fairclough was a "Career Spy"
With the exception of announcements concerning their most senior executives, it is almost unprecedented for the United Kingdom’s Security Service (MI5) or Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to disclose the identities of their officers, employees, or agents. Consequently, it is virtually impossible to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that any individual has ever served within those organisations.
Moreover, apart from limited and often heavily redacted disclosures made through The National Archives, typically many decades after the event, any attempt to establish such proof may either (a) constitute a breach of the Official Secrets Acts, now consolidated within the National Security Act 2023, or (b) rely on information that has been intentionally obscured or falsified through official disinformation.
Despite these formidable barriers, an exceptional and independently verifiable disclosure has been made by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s largest professional services and auditing firms. Without qualification, PwC formally stated that Bill Fairclough was a “career spy” which was a remarkable confirmation extending far beyond conjecture or hearsay.
Bill Fairclough was employed by Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) from 1969 until 1983. According to PwC’s own Subject Access Request Disclosure Bundle (GDPR SAR 25:84, dated 14 October 2025), issued under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) in response to a Subject Access Request submitted on 1 October 2025, PwC disclosed and confirmed the following:
In May 2022 PwC invited Mr Fairclough to contribute his memoirs for inclusion in an official PwC publication. In May 2024 PwC decided against publication and formally recorded that: (a) Mr Fairclough was a “career spy”; and (b) his dual career as both a covert intelligence agent and a PwC employee was so notable that publication of his memoirs might have caused reputational damage to PwC. This acknowledgement is extraordinary. Even David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, who was employed by MI6 rather than engaged as one of its agents, never received such unequivocal and independent institutional confirmation of his intelligence background from any globally recognised organisation.
Needless to say there exists much more evidence to establish that Bill Fairclough was a secret agent operating for various intelligence agencies including MI6 and the CIA for decades. That evidence includes and is by no means limited to: (a) the autobiographical book, Beyond Enkription in TheBurlingtonFiles series; (b) more books written in TheBurlingtonFiles series but yet to be published; (c) data disclosed in TheBurlingtonFiles and FaireSansDire websites; (d) data disclosed in various articles elsewhere on the web; (e) data in affidavits in court cases involving Bill Fairclough; (f) his acquaintances, contacts etc on social media platforms especially on LinkedIn where for years he has had the maximum number (30,000) of “Connections” (not followers); and (g) other sometimes circumstantial evidence.
For more information see https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.10.24.php and https://archive.org/details/pricewaterhouse-coopers-gdpr-sar-25.84-response-bill-fairclough.
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References
1. "El hombre de Pemberton – MI6". RTVE.es. Retrieved 2025-10-12. 2. "El Archivo Burlington". RTVE.es. Retrieved 2025-10-12. 3. RTVE public broadcaster information. Retrieved 2025-09-25. Transcripts: Burlington Files, Transcript copy. 4. Correspondence re Fairclough’s education. Retrieved 2025-09-27. 5. Cooper Brothers correspondence 1969-1971. Retrieved 2025-09-27. 6. ICAEW Membership Confirmation. Retrieved 2025-09-23. 7. Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment Confirmation. Retrieved 2025-10-02. 8. Association of Corporate Treasurers Membership Confirmation. Retrieved 2025-09-26. 9. Companies House Officer Records. Retrieved 2025-09-26. 10. Liz Fisher ICAEW Accountancy Magazine Interview (1991). Retrieved 2025-09-27. 11. Daily Telegraph: BarclayTrust Finance Chief (1996). Retrieved 2025-09-27. 12. Barclays Directors Ltd (Company No. 01728893). Retrieved 2025-09-26. 13. Instinet International Ltd (Company No. 01428443). Retrieved 2025-09-26. 14. Fairclough’s directorships of regulated companies. Retrieved 2025-09-27. 15. WW Dental Excellence Ltd, ECF Group plc, PonderSwamp Ltd, FaireSansDire Ltd, The Money Portal plc. Retrieved 2025-09-26. 16. Beyond Enkription – The Burlington Files, Volume 1. London: Dolman Scott Ltd (2014). ISBN 978-1909204720. Retrieved 2025-09-25. 17. Beyond Enkription – AbeBooks. Retrieved 2025-10-12. 18. Intelligence Online coverage of FaireSansDire (2010–2016). Retrieved 2025-09-27. 19. Citywire: The Money Portal Trial. Retrieved 2025-09-25. 20. Money Marketing: Money Portal Chief Quits. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
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References
Summaries, details and explanations of all Bill Fairclough's UK directorships (excluding shadow directorships) may be obtained from these links: (1) http://bit.ly/BillFaircloughDirectorships (2) http://bit.ly/CHCorrespondenceDirectorships (3) http://bit.ly/JWPF-Open-Corporates (4) http://bit.ly/JWPF-Company-Check (5) http://bit.ly/JWPF-Companies-House (Please note that Bill Fairclough's directorships in his early life are no longer included in the computerized records currently accessible by normal Companies House searches.)
